At the trial, Gary Murphy - who had famously wet his pants when police arrested him - along with his two brothers and Michael Murdoch all tried to point the finger of blame at Travers.

Gary Murphy wets his pants as he is arrested after trying to flee his hide-out with brother Michael, the final two to be captured for killing nurse Anita Cobby in 1986.

Murdered nurse Anita Cobby.

Travers, a psychopath who reportedly had sex with a goat before slitting its throat on his lawn in suburban Doonside, had pleaded guilty to avoid a trial.

The attempt to get off from a life in prison for murder by blaming Travers was the defence case presented by Michael Murphy, the eldest of the Cobby killers who has just died from liver cancer in Long Bay prison hospital

On his arrest, almost a month after Anita Cobby's murder, the convicted criminal and attempted prison escapee immediately dobbed in Travers as the killer.